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The National Basketball Association’s player free agency period opened on July 1st, (this is the first day that players with expired contracts can enter into new contract negotiations with the league’s clubs for the new season), and as usual, the period has been a frenzy of recruiting activity… interviews, second interviews, offers, acceptances, and what I want to write about …
Here is a question for you as an HR/Talent professional: Is there ever any circumstance where it is not okay to cold call into a company or to directly call a “passive” candidate in order to try and recruit him or her away from their company? Is there any reason or development why you would not call in to a …
Welcome back to the latest installment of ‘Learn a new word Thursday’ where I share with you some small, but hopefully interesting and relevant word or concept that since it is new to me, must be new to (many of) you as well. Submitted for your consideration today’s word/concept: Knightian uncertainty. From your pals at Wikipedia: In economics, Knightian uncertainty …
Super look at just one of the ways that a ‘performance is the only thing that matters’ culture that is professional American football manifests itself over at Deadspin last week in the piece This is the the letter you get when you are cut from an NFL team. Take a look at a typical player termination letter from one of …
Chances are you are familiar with, and possibly an active participant in some kind of Fantasy Sports. Fantasy Sports have an estimated 40 million players in North America – that is a lot of people who enjoy playing selecting and managing fake teams of real athletes to attempt to win fake championships, (and sometimes real money). And some of the …
How is it that almost an entire week has passed since the series finale of Mad Men—perhaps the most important workplace-related pop culture phenomenon in the last decade—and no one here at Fistful of Talent has taken on the challenge of recapping the finale through the HR/Talent/Workplace lens? Well, fear not faithful FOT reader, I am on the case. Let’s …
This short, but fascinating recent piece from the Washington Post is the source for today’s installment of CHART OF THE DAY – a quick snapshot of how the US population is expected to change by 2050 in three key areas – religious affiliation, age, and race/ethnicity. As always, I will drop in the chart, then some FREE commentary from me …
Yesterday I had the increasingly rare experience of meeting a professional acquaintance for the very first time in person who despite having corresponded with this person over email and having one or two calls, I had no idea what they actually looked like. While we were connected on LinkedIn, and I think following each other on Twitter, this person had …
Anyone who has a job that requires some level of original thinking, creativity, or simply just coming up with incremental improvements to existing products or processes occasionally hits a dry spell, where new ideas see impossible to conjure. Sometimes it’s called “writer’s block” or even (let’s hope temporary) burnout, but no matter what the term, the effect is the same—a …
If you find yourself saying or thinking something along the lines of ‘I can’t believe he/she texted that! Why didn’t they pick up the phone and call instead?’ you need to stop, take two or three deep cleansing breaths, and join the rest of us in 2015. I thought about this again while reading about a Major League Baseball player …
